Episode #444 – February 28th, 2014

ActiveRecord Heatmaps, Atom Editor, Ruby Gotchas and Ruby Tempfiles. Guest hosts Karle Durante and Ken Collins

Episode #517 – December 16, 2014

December 16, 2014

This week we have Streem, Rails 4.2.rc3, Papercrop, and RubyMotion 3.0.

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Streem Ruby’s creator is working on a new stream based language. It’s in its early days but is clearly influenced by Ruby. It is a concurrent scripting language based on a programming model similar to shell, with influences from Ruby and other functional programming languages. Currently, it's still in the design stages.

Rails 4.2.0 Release Candidate The Rails team has just released the third Release Candidate of Rails 4.2 today. Major changes include - Active Jobs, Asychnonous mails, Adequate record, web console, and foreign key support. So far, there haven't been any major regressions for this release, meaning that we are still on track for our target to release the final version of 4.2.0 before Christmas time.

Papercrop

Papercrop is a gem from rsantamaria. It's an easy extension for Paperclip to crop your image uploads using jCrop. It's quite simple to use - there are 2 form helpers (cropbox and crop_preview). Cropbox places an adjustable crop area over the image being cropped and crop_preview renders a small preview of your finished image. Just a note - make sure you allow for additional params when using strong parameters

RubyMotion 3.0

Last Friday, RubyMotion announced the official release of version 3.0. Since the release of the beta, they’ve been hard at work adding some updates. Most notably, they now support all versions of Android. There’s a bunch of new features too. A debugger interface and a spec framework have been added but it doesn't stop there. 3.0 let’s you write Apple Watch apps with Watchkit, create iOS 8 integrations, iOS 64-bit support, and an overall application size reduction.

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